Thank you.
I didn't "overlook" them. I just decided against them and not because I didn't feel they would give me a high quality hunt.
Most of the top "Big Buck" private land outfitters I talked to needed more points than I have now and/or would have im 2023/2024. And if you guys get your way and 90/10 happens the NR Point cost will double and I will never get there so I am taking what I can get with the points I have.
I also have done some private land ranch hunts via 4x4 in Wyoming, had a great time, shot some good bucks and am kind of excited about doing a horse based hunt even though I realize on public land we could run into competition. But Tre's track record suggest we can still be successful.
As far as me being dead wrong....that is kind of hard to prove one way or the other but if the Senators in the Travel, Recreation and Wildlife committee and everyone else believed that...it would have sailed through the the committee 5-0 instead of getting shot down 1-4, been voted on and passed in the legislature and signed by the Governor by now.
Maybe someday you guys will get your wish and 90/10 passes. Then you can find out if all the NRs will just say "OK" and keep applying and buying points. Personally I am burning my Elk, Deer and Antelope points and won't buy any more points if the NR point cost has soared above what it has been. It wont make any sense to if I won't be able to get enough points in the remainder of my hunting lifetime to use them.
The good news is that maybe your dreams will come true, the outfitters will go out of business and won't be able to lease ranches so all will be Nirvana in Wyoming other than the WF&G losing lots of funding and some outfitters losing their way of making a living.
Seems to me talking out of your ass and plagiarism are about the only 2 moves you have.
Were you planning on plagiarizing Guy Eastman's whole article with your first rant or did you think changing a word or two would float by?
My advice, don't do that...at least be original in your disinformation campaign on what is happening with 90-10. I realize from your last posts, you have to do what you can considering how few "facts" you bring to the discussion.
As to the committee hearing, obviously you weren't there and didn't listen. There are 2 of the 4 that opposed it that will vote in favor if the wildlife task force doesn't deal with it soon. They said so in testimony that they were inclined to favor Resident hunters.
As to the WYGF funding shortfall...you have no idea what you're talking about. You need to find a new lie to spread, nobody is believing yours.
Here's how easy it would be to make up the difference for license dollars to the GF department under 90-10 for moose, sheep, goat, bison and LQ elk:
Total revenue to GF lost would be: $191,038 from a combination of sheep, moose, bison, and goat permits.
To make up the loss in revenue, with room to spare, raising Resident fishing licenses from $27 annually to $30 annually would raise $222,540. A simple $3 increase in resident fishing licenses would more than cover the NR license revenue.
If full 90-10 was across the board for full priced antlered/horned game, it would be a license revenue loss to the Department of $1,629,634 dollars based on 2020 quotas. (this would assume reduced priced tags stay at current splits, which I'm fine with)
To make up the revenue loss, if we raised every full priced Resident license $10...that would generate $1,486,770.
So....by raising each Resident full priced license sold here by $10 and raising Resident fishing licenses by $3, we would generate $1,709,310. More than enough to cover the license revenue loss for 90-10.
I'll pay that all....day....long for 90% of the available tags and if its framed that way, I think a vast majority of Residents are going to be on board.
All we need to do is continue to apply pressure to our elected officials, and if they don't comply, vote them out and put some in place that support 90-10. The Resident hunters in this State outnumber NR's and outfitters by a huge margin. Resident sportsmen/women are also a powerful and large voting block.
Time to exert the pressure and get what we want...elected officials work for us, not the other way around.
